Artist in Residence 2024: Lena von Goedeke
Lena von Goedeke will be conducting artistic research at the TUD from May to October 2024 on the guiding theme "Data↔Worlds.
Opening of the exhibition: GROUND TRUTH
on 27.09.2024 at 7:30 pm, Gallery of the Office for Academic Heritage
Duration of the exhibition: 30.09.24 -24.01.2025
Socio-technical and cultural syntheses of new realities". Von Goedeke was born in Duisburg in 1983 and now lives and works in Berlin and Spitsbergen. Her installations and objects have been shown at the Museum Marta Herford, the Museum August Macke Haus in Bonn, the Kunsthalle Münster and in numerous gallery exhibitions. Von Goedeke has already been awarded various prizes, including the Kallmann Prize of the Kallmann Museum Ismaning and the DEW21 Art Prize Dortmund as well as the annual scholarship of the Kunstfonds Foundation.
Lena von Goedeke
In her diverse works, von Goedeke deals intensively with man's relationship to nature and his position in the cosmos.
The artist works closely with scientists from various disciplines. The results of this collaborative research find expression in critically reflected and at the same time sensually articulated works: in detailed, fragile silhouettes that refer to geographical land surveys and mapping methods or in photographic and installative explorations of satellite images, she transforms complex, abstract data and research results into poetic and at the same time profound works.
Her current artistic work focuses on Arctic research, in particular the technologies, potentials and challenges applied here. For several years now, von Goedeke has been collecting information and thoughts on the ethical and technological aspects of generating images of the world using satellites.
Based on the guiding theme of the second funding phase "Data↔Worlds", the artist would like to devote herself to the following topic during her residency at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden:
Lena von Goedeke: „Radar II“, 2400 x 170 cm, Handschnitt in retroreflektivem Gewebe, 2020
"For two years I have been observing the development and application of Earth Observation satellites, as well as the people who develop and control them and process the collected data. The closer we zoom in on our planet, the more what we see becomes blurred: a kind of coastline paradox, which means that more images and more information do not lead to more knowledge or understanding - and certainly not to an understanding of a hyper-object such as the climate catastrophe. In dialog and exchange with the researchers at TU Dresden and the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden network, I will deepen my understanding of the technical requirements and basics of earth surveying and data processing in order to develop aesthetic forms of expression and ideas for interfaces between our satellites and our self-image as earthlings. When and how do we have to put our feet in the water of the coast in order to understand it?"
In the first funding phase, the following artists in residence were guests at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden: Christian Kosmas Mayer (2020), Anton Ginzburg (2021), Esmeralda Conde Ruiz (2022) and Rosa Barba (2023).